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Optimizing Prescribing Decisions for Hospitalized Older Adults With Chronic Conditions

NCT06605807 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2026-04-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to learn if providing a clinical decision framework for managing older adults chronic conditions during hospitalization to inpatient clinicians improves clinicians' ability to individualize chronic condition prescribing decisions for hospitalized older adults (65 and older). The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Will the clinical decision framework lead to clinicians having greater confidence to individualize discharge prescribing?
* Will clinicians using the framework discharge make fewer changes to hospitalized older adults with home diabetes and hypertension medications than they did prior to receiving the framework?
* Will older adult patients of participating clinicians will report fewer gaps in understanding of medication changes after the clinician is exposed to the framework?

Researchers will compare participating clinician survey responses and prescribing records from before and after an educational session presenting the clinical decision framework.

Participants will be asked to

* Attend a one-time educational session on the clinical decision framework
* Complete 2 electronic surveys, one before and one following the educational session.
* Agree for researchers to contact their patients, in order for patients to complete a one-time phone survey about changes made to home medications during hospitalization and quality of communication from the hospital team.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Clinical Decision Framework for Managing older adults' chronic conditions during hospitalization.

All clinicians will attend an educational session where they will be provided a clinical decision framework for management of chronic conditions in hospitalized older adults, reviewing guiding principles for managing chronic disease in the hospital, and working through case-based hypothetical examples.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Timothy S Anderson, MD, MAS · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-11-13
Primary Completion
2026-10-30
Completion
2027-01-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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